Sacking Architects

[mjc55]

As I have mentioned before, I left my previous profession (in IT) and did an Architectural Technology degree at UWE about 15 years ago.  In the first year our course contained both AT students and Architecture students after that we split into different cohorts.  That Architecture courses were quite technical at first but by the time the Part 2 and 3 Architecture students were studying the content was anything but practical and some of the content of the degree shows was completely out there.

 

This isn't to say of course that some of the architecture students were not practical, many were but a significant number were artists rather than architects.

 

My pet name for them was starchitects!

[Alan Ambrose]

@saveasteading

 

While you're trudging through mud ... you could be considering diverse ways in which architects, artists, filmmakers, curators and other cultural producers have negotiated crises. No? You are a cultural producer?

Edited November 19 by Alan Ambrose

[SteamyTea]

16 hours ago, G and J said:

keep up with rapid product and technology developments

What, in the building trade.

One of the most backwards looking industries in the UK.

[SteamyTea]

3 hours ago, Alan Ambrose said:

We strongly encourage to think about the performativity of space, or architectural forms and practices in their interrelation to the climate crisis, social movements and institutional change.

A degree in Physics will cover most of that.

There was a survey a few years back where some physicist, mechanical engineers and economists had to predict the effects of a recent budget (think it was 2010).

The engineers came out on top, the economists last.

 

There is so much nonsense spoken about housing.

Most people want enough space and privacy, affordable to run and buy, and close to amenities.

There will always be exceptions, and most of us on here are the exceptions, so no point taking advice from Buildhubbers about social issues or minimum space requirements.

[joe90]

1 hour ago, SteamyTea said:

There is so much nonsense spoken about housing.

Most people want enough space and privacy, affordable to run and buy, and close to amenities.

There will always be exceptions, and most of us on here are the exceptions, so no point taking advice from Buildhubbers about social issues or minimum space requirements.

I don’t know if I agree with “most of us on here as buildhubbers are the exceptions,”  I certainly didn’t, I wanted enough space but affordable to run. I did this with plenty of insulation, airtight(ish) and a plain rectangle with a long face to south for max solar gain, with conservatory to magnify that gain (despite being told it would overheat, which I didn’t). . 

[ProDave]

2 minutes ago, joe90 said:

I don’t know if I agree with “most of us on here as buildhubbers are the exceptions,”  I certainly didn’t, I wanted enough space but affordable to run. I did this with plenty of insulation, airtight(ish) and a plain rectangle with a long face to south for max solar gain, with conservatory to magnify that gain (despite being told it would overheat, which I didn’t). . 

Your build requirements were much the same as mine, and I would say that is pretty normal for self builders.

 

But most self builders are quite different to mass market house buyers.  I self built (twice) because mass market builders at the price I could afford only offer row after row of identikit boxes crammed in tight together with small gardens and little regard to views or which way faces south.